Guild Wars 2

The downed skill def is not weak. The other classes you mention like thief and mesmer are nothing more then annoyances. Very very rarely do they do anything more then interupt me, I run back, and down them right over again. The warrior one you actually can get back up and atleast do some damage in the meantime.

The only class I really love as far as downed abilities goes is Ranger like which has been stated. Ranger has been my primary sPvP. The ability to call my pet over, use their abilities such as a stun or knock back, AND heal myself with my pet being an ally healing me more is great. Not to mention, I havent tested this yet, I THINK the cooldown for a pet ability is per pet not on a timer. So I could use my spiders stun, call out my wolf then use his howl. Honestly…I havent had to really need to do that too so I dont know if it works like that. I usually just immediately call out my wolf because my spider may be to far, and with the wolf howl and occasional knockback attack it works best for me. Either way its great though. As far as being able to reasonably reliably get me back up its by far way better then mesmer/theif or anything like that. They are just mere distractions at best. I start to down them knowing exactly that they are going to clone, or shift, or daze me or whatever, I immediately just run back and do it again lol.

For perspective I typically actually die maybe 2-3 times in a normal match with 10-15 kills with my ranger. I die a bit more then that, maybe 5, so being able to consistantly rez myself 50% of the time is pretty nice in my book.